Thoracic epidural anesthesia impairs the hemodynamic response to acute pulmonary hypertension by deteriorating right ventricular-pulmonary arterial coupling

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 222-229

  Rex, Steffen ^a,b   Missant, Carlo ^a   Segers, Patrick ^c   Wouters, Patrick F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Anesthesia; Epidural; Hemodynamic processes; Hypertension; Myocardial contraction; Pulmonary; Pulmonary vascular resistance

Indexed keywords

BUPIVACAINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOWMETRY; BODY WEIGHT; CATHETER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DETERIORATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPIDURAL CATHETER; HEART AFTERLOAD; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE CONTRACTILITY; HEART OUTPUT; HEART RATE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART VENTRICLE CONTRACTILITY; HEART VENTRICLE PERFORMANCE; HEART WORK; HEMODYNAMICS; HYPOXIA; INOTROPISM; LABORATORY; LUNG PRESSURE; LUNG VASOCONSTRICTION; MECHANICAL PROBE; NONHUMAN; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; SWINE; THORAX EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANESTHESIA, EPIDURAL; ANIMALS; ANOXIA; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIAC OUTPUT; CRITICAL CARE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HEART RATE; HOMEOSTASIS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PULMONARY CIRCULATION; PULMONARY WEDGE PRESSURE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; STROKE VOLUME; SWINE; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, RIGHT;

EID: 33845930035     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000250357.35250.A2     Document Type: Article

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